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Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lees, Clare A.
- Series:
- Religion & culture in the Middle Ages.
- Religion & culture in the Middle Ages
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian literature, English (Old)--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, English (Old).
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--History and criticism.
- Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Women--Religious life--England--History--To 1500.
- Women.
- Feminism and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--England--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature.
- Women--England--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
- Clergy--England--History--To 1500.
- Clergy.
- Rhetoric, Medieval.
- Great Britain--History--Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066.
- Great Britain.
- England--Social conditions--1066-1485.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First printed in 2001 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, this book has been out of print for several years and is highly sought after by researchers in the field of Medieval cultural studies. Double Agents was the first book length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on board the insights of contemporary critical theory, especially feminist theory, in order to elucidate the complex challenges of both the absence and presence of women in the historical record.
- Contents:
- Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements, 2001; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Patristic Maternity: Bede, Hild and Cultural Procreation; Orality, Femininity and the Disappearing Trace in Early Anglo-Saxon England; Literacy and Gender in Later Anglo-Saxon England; Figuring the Body: Gender, Performance, Hagiography; Pressing Hard on the 'Breasts' of Scripture: Metaphor and the Symbolic; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781299200500
- 1299200508
- 9780708322321
- 0708322328
- OCLC:
- 496116188
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